Pastiche and neovanguardism, hybridization and playground… : Agustín Fernández Mallo and the Nocilla Lab

Abstract

The Generación Nocilla appeared in spanish literatura from a series of poems, stories, blogs and novels by Agustín Fernández Mallo. The postpoetry essay. Towards a new paradigm (2009). The postpoetry completed a proposal that had been formulated to a large extent in another importan essay on the cuestión, Afterpop, by Eloy Fenández Cuesta (2007), or Vicente Luis Mora and Pablo García Casado. Mallo sought a regeneration of narrative, poetry, wich he considered moribund in Spain, from the hybridization of genres, appealing to the movies, mass-media, in a experimental exercice. Nocilla lab was a laboratory oor transgenic art, computer art, comics, fractal art, electronic theater, biotechnological art, post-human art o the art of chaos. Howevwe, it is difficultto distinguish in some cases hybridization and everythin looks suspiciously like a neo- avant-garde wihout much theoretical foundation in the background. The Nocilla Lab was surely his most important moment.